RE: [Fantasy_Books] Nooooo!!!Re: to members in the united kingdom

Huh? better than Marion ZB??? How so?? She may be better than Rawn and Lackey... dunno abotu NOrton;s early stuff. But Bradley??? Some people may not *like*

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Huh? better than Marion ZB??? How so?? She may be better than Rawn and
Lackey... dunno abotu NOrton;s early stuff. But Bradley???
Some people may not *like* Bradley, but she is 10 times the writer and
world-builder that McCaffrey is IMO
Maire

Mathew, I mentioned world-building to be specifically in context of McCaffrey and MZB... McCaffrey s world=building is so astonishingly crappy, you see. (as

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Mathew, I mentioned world-building to be specifically in context of
McCaffrey and MZB... McCaffrey's world=building is so astonishingly crappy,
you see. (as in, wildly improbable and inconsistent).
I never said world-building is everything. At the moment I am really sick of
people grabbing stuff out of posts that arent there.
Maire

On Thursday 06 December 2001 19:56, you wrote:
> Huh? better than Marion ZB??? How so?? She may be better than
> Rawn and Lackey... dunno abotu NOrton;s early stuff. But
> Bradley??? Some people may not *like* Bradley, but she is 10 times
> the writer and world-builder that McCaffrey is IMO
> Maire

World-building isn't everything, Maire. At least, I don't think so.
I'd rather see a rich plot played out on a bare stage by well-drawn
characters than a thin plot on a lush stage by cardboard characters.

This is probably why I like Ayn Rand and Michael Moorcock; they
might skimp on the world-building, but they have some damned
entertaining plots when they're at their best.
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... Hash: SHA1 ... World-building isn t everything, Maire. At least, I don t think so. I d rather see a rich plot played out on a bare stage by well-drawn

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On Thursday 06 December 2001 19:56, you wrote:
> Huh? better than Marion ZB??? How so?? She may be better than
> Rawn and Lackey... dunno abotu NOrton;s early stuff. But
> Bradley??? Some people may not *like* Bradley, but she is 10 times
> the writer and world-builder that McCaffrey is IMO
> Maire

World-building isn't everything, Maire. At least, I don't think so.
I'd rather see a rich plot played out on a bare stage by well-drawn
characters than a thin plot on a lush stage by cardboard characters.

This is probably why I like Ayn Rand and Michael Moorcock; they
might skimp on the world-building, but they have some damned
entertaining plots when they're at their best.
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Matthew Grayboschhttp://www.starbreaker.net
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Sorry for being harsh, Mathew. Its not personal. AS you may have realised, I am just weary with the miscommunication that seems to happen so much on the

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, Dec 7, 2001

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Sorry for being harsh, Mathew. Its not personal. AS you may have realised,
I am just weary with the miscommunication that seems to happen so much on
the net... makes me feel like we spend so much time semi-bickering, you
know?
Maire

> I am just weary with the miscommunication that seems to happen so much on
> the net...

Email is really a terrible way to communicate. Or perhaps humans just
haven't adapted to it yet. It's very easy for things to be taken more
seriously than they were intended. Often we think that it's clear that we're
being facetious, but we're actually making a lot of assumptions - that other
people understand our sense of humour, that they know how we normally express
ourselves, etc. We also often forget that even between the various
English-speaking countries there are cultural differences.

Al G

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